How does a local wind reduction zone influence seed dispersal around a single shrub element?
Tag - long-distance dispersal
William Salter
Consequences of intraspecific variation in seed dispersal for plant demography, communities, evolution and global change
As the single opportunity for plants to move, seed dispersal has an important impact on plant fitness, species distributions and patterns of biodiversity. However, models that predict extinction risk of species, range...
From South America to Shenzhen, China; road trip of an invasive weed
The South American weed Mikania micrantha has spread rapidly across Southern China since its introduction to the Shenzhen region in 1984. Geng et al. used SSR markers to investigate and map genetic diversification of...
botanyone
Biogeography and evolutionary diversification in one of the most widely distributed and species rich genera of the Pacific
The largest natural feature on Earth is the Pacific Ocean, which covers over one-third of our planet’s surface. Despite its extent, the historical biogeography of many lineages – of both terrestrial and marine ocean...
AoBPLANTS
Phylogeny and evolution of Cyperus esculentus
Results suggest that tiger nut probably originated in the late Cenozoic in Africa and reached the Americas repeatedly, independently of Columbian exchanges.
Genetic structure and gene flow patterns in Ulmus
Bertolasi et al. investigate pollen dispersal patterns in a relic U. minor stand surrounded by U. minor and U. pumila trees scattered across 80 km2.
Diversification and evolution of dispersal ability in Brassiceae
Increased dispersal ability in Brassiceae can influence macro-evolutionary processes, possibly by increasing the propensity for long-distance dispersal.
Pteris – the most diverse ferns
The inferred biogeographic history highlights long-distance dispersal as a major process shaping the worldwide distribution of the genus Pteris.
AJ Cann
Polyploidy and long-distance dispersal
Most of the numerous and remarkable range disjunctions across the southern oceans are probably the result of occasional long-distance dispersal, rather than of vicariance. Linder and Barker study the grass subfamily...
The controversial origin of the coconut
So where do coconuts originate from - America or Asia?
Pantropical disjunction in Paederia
Paederia is a pantropical genus of 31 species of woody lianas from the family Rubiaceae, with high species’ diversity in both tropical continental Asia and Africa and only two species in the tropical Americas. Nie et al...
